Transfer Surplus Population | Maclean's | NOVEMBER 1, 1924
Transfer Surplus Population Prominent Historian and Economist Urges that Sparsely-Settled Portions of Globe be Systematically Settled by Britishers. November 1 1924 SIR JOHN A. R. MARRIOTT Transfer Surplus Population SIR JOHN A. R. MARRIOTT NATURE abhors a vacuum,” was the wording of an old saw; but Sir John A. R. Marriott, M.P., writing for the Fortnightly Review, uses Lord Northcliffe’s adaption of it to the human element, when the latter declared that “the world will not tolerate an empty or a sparsely-settled country.” In other words, there...
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